{"id":973,"date":"2018-02-24T11:29:35","date_gmt":"2018-02-24T11:29:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.depts.washington.edu\/fammed\/improvingopioidcare\/?page_id=4"},"modified":"2021-05-06T17:47:03","modified_gmt":"2021-05-06T17:47:03","slug":"6-building-blocks","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/improvingopioidcare\/6-building-blocks\/","title":{"rendered":"Overview of the Six Building Blocks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The six key work areas you need to redesign to improve your clinic\u2019s management of patients who are on long-term opioid therapy are below. To learn more about the Six Building Blocks, check out this JABFM <a href=\"\/improvingopioidcare\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/02\/JABFM-article_2017.pdf\">article<\/a>\u00a0about the development of the Six Building Blocks, this Annals of Family Medicine <a href=\"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/improvingopioidcare\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/07\/Final-Published-Team-Opioids_Ann_Fam_Med_2019.pdf\">article<\/a> on the prescribing results of the program, and this JABFM <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jabfm.org\/content\/32\/5\/715\">article<\/a> about work life experience results of the program.<\/p>\n<p><strong>If you need to skip ahead, click on a block to jump to that section.<\/strong><\/p>\n<a class=\"no-blank section_link cyan\" href=\"\/improvingopioidcare\/6-building-blocks\/leadership-consensus\/\"><span class=\"vcenter\"><span class=\"link_title\">Leadership and consensus<\/span><span class=\"sub-head\">Demonstrate leadership support and build organization-wide consensus to prioritize more selective and cautious opioid prescribing.<\/span><\/span><\/a>\n<a class=\"no-blank section_link yellow\" href=\"\/improvingopioidcare\/6-building-blocks\/policies-patient-agreements-workflows\/\"><span class=\"vcenter\"><span class=\"link_title\">Policies, patient agreements, and workflows<\/span><span class=\"sub-head\">Revise, align, and implement clinic policies, patient agreements, and workflows for health care team members to improve opioid prescribing and care of patients with chronic pain.<\/span><\/span><\/a>\n<a class=\"no-blank section_link red\" href=\"\/improvingopioidcare\/6-building-blocks\/tracking-monitoring-patient-care\/\"><span class=\"vcenter\"><span class=\"link_title\">Tracking and monitoring patient care<\/span><span class=\"sub-head\">Implement proactive population management before, during, and between clinic visits of all patients on long-term opioid therapy.<\/span><\/span><\/a>\n<a class=\"no-blank section_link green\" href=\"\/improvingopioidcare\/6-building-blocks\/planned-patient-centered-visits\/\"><span class=\"vcenter\"><span class=\"link_title\">Planned, patient-centered visits<\/span><span class=\"sub-head\">Prepare and plan for the clinic visits of all patients on long-term opioid therapy. Support patient-centered, empathic communication for care of patients on long-term opioid therapy.<\/span><\/span><\/a>\n<a class=\"no-blank section_link blue\" href=\"\/improvingopioidcare\/6-building-blocks\/caring-for-complex-patients\/\"><span class=\"vcenter\"><span class=\"link_title\">Caring for patients with complex needs<\/span><span class=\"sub-head\">Develop policies and resources to ensure that patients who develop opioid use disorder and\/or who need mental\/behavioral health resources are identified and provided with appropriate care, either in the primary care setting or by outside referral.<\/span><\/span><\/a>\n<a class=\"no-blank section_link purple\" href=\"\/improvingopioidcare\/6-building-blocks\/measuring-success\/\"><span class=\"vcenter\"><span class=\"link_title\">Measuring success<\/span><span class=\"sub-head\">Continuously monitor progress and improve with experience.<\/span><\/span><\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The six key work areas you need to redesign to improve your clinic\u2019s management of patients who are on long-term opioid therapy are below. To learn more about the Six Building Blocks, check out this JABFM article\u00a0about the development of the Six Building Blocks, this Annals of Family Medicine article on the prescribing results of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/improvingopioidcare\/6-building-blocks\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-section.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-973","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/improvingopioidcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/improvingopioidcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/improvingopioidcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/improvingopioidcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/improvingopioidcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=973"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/improvingopioidcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1924,"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/improvingopioidcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/973\/revisions\/1924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/improvingopioidcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}